Research Highlights - August

REMRSEC Research Highlights

The Renewable Energy Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (REMRSEC) has made substantial progress in its research mission of identifying, launching and advancing innovative research directions in materials for renewable energy, and in its human resource mission of educating the next generation of renewable energy professionals, reaching out to students and the general community, an...

2017 Research Highlights

With NIH support, scientists across the United States and the world conduct wide-ranging research to improve the health of our nation. Groundbreaking NIH-funded research often receives top scientific honors. In 2017, these included 4 NIH-supported Nobel Prize winners and 2 NIH-funded recipients of top awards from the Lasker Foundation. Here’s just a small sampling of the research accomplishment...

Highlights in Probiotic Research

Research Activities #288, August 2004

disease are much less likely than men with HIV to receive potentially lifeprolonging drugs even though they have private health insurance that would help pay for the drugs, according to a recent study from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Fred J. Hellinger, Ph.D., and William E. Encinosa, Ph.D., of AHRQ’s Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, found that only 39 percent ...

Research Activities #276, August 2003

shown any substantial difference in how coronary artery disease (CAD) patients fare 2 to 3 years after either coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), two procedures that are performed to restore adequate blood supply to blocked arteries. However, a recent meta-analysis performed by researchers at Tufts-New England Medical Center in B...